This site contains information about my academic career and research interests. My CV is available here. PubMed entries here.
If you are looking for my blog “In Search of Enlightenment” please click here.
Detailed research statement *here*
I am a political theorist and philosopher and received my PhD from the University of Bristol in England in 1999. I have published 4 books (two edited volumes and two single-authored books) and numerous articles in a variety of different journals. My research interests are interdisciplinary and include normative issues in politics, philosophy, law and medicine. My publications have appeared in journals such as Political Studies, American Journal of Bioethics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, British Medical Journal, Nature’s EMBO Reports, University of Toronto Law Journal, Bioethics, Public Health Ethics, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
In July 2008 I joined the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University as an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar. Before coming to Queen’s I was Associate Professor of Political Science (Cross-Appointed with Philosophy) at Waterloo University. I also spent a year as a Research Fellow in the Dept of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and as a Visitor in Oxford’s Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences.
In the more distant past, I held full-time academic appointments in the Dept of Government at Manchester University, the Dept of Political Science and International Studies at Birmingham University and the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
My research has focused on a variety of different topics, including: genetics and justice; Marx’s theory of historical materialism; the moral imperative to retard human aging; a critique of ideal theory; the “dialogical model” of judicial review; virtue jurisprudence; the application of virtue ethics to different practical dilemmas; Darwinian medicine and positive psychology.
Below you will find further details about my research and interests.
In 2009-10 I will be teaching POLS 250 An Introduction to Political Theory. Students interested in that course can view the trailer here.
